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Airbus' first flyable A350 XWB wing upper cover, which was built at the company's Stade, Germany, site and loaded for transport on Sept. 6, 2011 to the Wing Assembly site in Broughton, U.K.

Airbus' first flyable A350 XWB wing upper cover, which was built at the company's Stade, Germany, site and loaded for transport on Sept. 6, 2011 to the Wing Assembly site in Broughton, U.K.

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Airbus builds A350XWB wing cover

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Airbus built the cover at its site in Stade, Germany, and loaded it onto its “Beluga” plane for transport to its Wing Assembly site in Broughton, U.K. Airbus said it plans to move the first A350 XWB lower wing cover from its manufacturing site in Illescas, Spain, to Broughton “in the coming days.”

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